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Who dance is happyer! To get passionate itself for flamenco requires a deep, complete delivery, to saborear the moans of sings it, the slopes of the ball and the rasgueado one of the guitar. It is necessary to feel, without making questions, vibrating without searching possible explanations. What I appeal is this, capable to seduce since most erudite to most popular? "Las Mascaras del Flamenco" approaches the cultures, joint party emotions and involves the public in the dense atmosphere. To unmask its mysteries would be impossible, however, can share. 
Belly Dance
In Turkey belly dance is called "gobek dans". It developed through the influence of many different cultures and continues its long process of development today. One of its origin could have been the Greeks which participated in esoteric religious rites which included dancing throughout their history. Some dancers think Egypt is considered to be the source of belly dance. For Saudi women, the dance itself was considered to be sacred, and not intended to be seen by men at all.
After its appearance at the Chicago Exposition at the turn of the century, Americans discovered it and the French name "danse du ventre" was translated into the "belly dance".
Across borders and cultures, "belly dance" is recognized as a dance style of its own. There are several points that make oriental dance different from other dance forms and reveal its diverse heritage. It has traditional associations with both religious and erotic elements. This ambiguity has caused belly dance to be disdained, scorned, and loved by many. Its apparent origins are the fertility cults of the ancient world. 
Oriental dance is uniquely designed for the female body, with an emphasis on abdominal muscles, hip moves, and chest moves. It is firm and earthy, traditionally with bare feet connected to the ground. It is a dance characterized by smooth, flowing, complex, and sensual movements of the torso, alternated with shaking and shimmy type moves.
Belly Dance The dancers often use some type of rhythm instrument to aid the musicians, or as the sole accompaniment to their dance. The use of various other props in the dance such as snakes, swords, veils, and candles. These items have magical, protective functions for primitive peoples that can still be found in the folk dances of these countries. Snakes clearly relate to the ancient mystery cults. The snake is a complex symbol which represented both male and female principles, and also immortality in the form of the snake eating its tail.
In Turkey today, the belly dance is very popular. You can watch it on TV and it is still the custom for the bride and groom to hire a belly dancer for their wedding or for a family to hire her for the circumcision parties.
In Turkey, the spectators pay the dancer directly in the form of cash placed on the dancer's body. Mostly information was obtained from "The World's Oldest Dance" : The Origins of Oriental Dance By Karol Henderson Harding a.k.a. Cala of Savatthi.
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What and the Belly Dance? Many connoisseurs say that belly dances the oldest form of the dance, having razes in all the old cultures of the east to the India to mid-East. Probably the biggest bigger conception on belly dance that it is intended to distract men. During all history, this ritual of the expression was executed generally for other women -- generally during the rituals or the parties of the fertility that prepare a new woman for the union. In the majority of cases, the presence of the men is not allowed
The gypsies adore to dance. The dance is born with them at the moment where they open the eyes to face the hard life of gypsy. Since child the gypsies hear and dance seguidillas, rumba, the joys and flamenco - traditional rhythms and sounds - produced by the guitars, violins, accordions, cimbalos, castanholas, pandeiros, palms of the hands and strokes of the feet, that learn early since with relatives and friends in the parties of the kumpania (encampment). |
